Islamic State group goons who tried to bully a Bedouin tribe recently learned the hard and painful way why messing with Bedouins can bring big trouble. You’d think everyone in the Arab world would know that as a matter of course, but it’s never too late to learn about the world around you — unless of course you get killed in the process.

According to the Saudi-owned news network Al Arabiya, a Bedouin tribe in the Sinai Peninsula recorded itself burning an Islamic State group militant alive after he and his terrorist buddies reportedly threatened them for cooperating with army and police officials.

Moreover, the militant whom the tribe chose to fry was reportedly a top official who had previously killed three citizens and a police officer by burning them to death. It seems the tribe chose to literally fight fire with fire.

In a statement released after the video’s publication, the tribe called for all tribes in the Sinai to unite against the Islamic State group “bravely and courageously, as the sons of the tribe do not fear the battles.”

“It is time to get together to face ISIS, which did not have mercy on the elderly or young, and filled the earth with corruption and destruction,” they said. “To anyone who supports ISIS by word, action or by monitoring, he has to surrender himself immediately.”

One of the tribe’s elders, Ibrahim al-Arjani, added that several tribes have already formed an alliance to root out militants from their peninsula.

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This marks a stunning turnabout in the war on terror, given that the tribes in Sinai have for years “refused to cooperate with the Egyptian army against ISIS,” as noted by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

What’s driven this new attitude is the Islamic State group’s insistence on targeting tribes for cooperating with Egyptian authorities.

“(O)ver the past three years, ISIS operatives have shot and killed 300 members of Bedouin tribes in Sinai and beheaded another 200 Bedouin for allegedly ‘collaborating’ with the Egyptian army and police forces, in order to terrorize and frighten the Bedouins into submission,” the Center reported.

Instead of just submitting to the savage terror group’s demands, however, the Bedouins have finally begun to fight back.